Psychoimmunology

Alan J. Husband is Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Husband graduated from The University of Sydney with an honours degree in Agricultural Science in 1972 and was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1975 for studies of immunity in ruminants. After post-doctoral studies at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford, he returned to Australia in 1977 to the position of Research Scientist and head of the Immunology section at the New South Wales State Department of Agriculture Central Veterinary Laboratories. In 1980 he was appointed to an academic position in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Newcastle and was Associate Professor of Immunology until accepting his present appointment at the end of 1991. Dr. Husband is a Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology and a member of the Australian Society for Immunology, the Australian Society for Medical Research, the Society for Mucosal Immunology, the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society and the American Association of Immunologists. He has authored in excess of 100 scientific publications, mostly in the area of mucosal immune defence, but since 1982 has developed additional interests in the emerging area of psychoimmunology, the roles of behaviour and the central nervous system in immunity. He was one of the foundation members of the Australian Behavioural Immunology Group and is currently the National Convenor of that organisation.